You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.